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MATTEO COLOMBO
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Specialisation Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Moral Psychology
Areas of Competence Epistemology
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Psychology of Judgement and Decision-Making
Contact
TiLPS, Tilburg University
PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Tel.: + 31 (0) 628271058
Email: [email protected]
Skype name: mteocol
Website: http://mteocolphi.wordpress.com/
ACCADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2015 - Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)
Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University
Assistant Professor
Autumn 2014 Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Visiting Scholar
2012 – 2015 Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)
Tilburg University
Postdoctoral Fellow
EDUCATION
2008 – 2012 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
PhD Philosophy
2007 – 2008 London School of Economics, London
MSc Philosophy and History of Science
2005 – 2007 Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano
MA Cognitive Science and Philosophy
2002 – 2005 Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli
BA with Honours Philosophy
Additional Training
2014-15 Tilburg University
University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs – BKO)
2010 Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Summer School Bounded Rationality: Foundations of an Interdisciplinary
Decision Theory
2009 Technical University of Denmark, Lingby
Summer School Mathematical Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics, Stochastic
and Complex Systems
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PUBLICATIONS
Authored books
(1) Wright, C., Potochnik, A., & Colombo, M. (under contract). An Introduction to Scientific
Reasoning, Routledge.
Edited books and volumes
(3) Colombo, M., Irvine, E., & Stapleton, M. (under contract). Andy Clark and his critics.
Oxford University Press.
(2) Sprevak, M., & Colombo, M. (Eds.) (under contract). Routledge Handbook of the
Computational Mind, Routledge.
(1) Colombo, M., Gervais, R., & Sprenger, J. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Objectivity in Science.
Special issue of Synthese.
Papers
(29) Colombo, M. (2017). Social motivation in computational neuroscience. Or if brains are
prediction machines, then the Humean theory of motivation is false. In J. Kiverstein (Ed.)
Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind, Routledge.
(28) Colombo, M. (2016). Animal grieving and human mourning Commentary on King on
Animal Grief. Animal Sentience 2016.110
(27) Colombo, M., & Wright, C. (2016). Explanatory Pluralism: An Unrewarding Prediction
Error for Free Energy Theorists. Brain and Cognition
(26) Colombo, M. (2016). Experimental Philosophy of Explanation Rising. The case for a
plurality of concepts of explanation. Cognitive Science.
(25) Colombo, M., Postma, M., & Sprenger, J. (2016). Explanatory Judgment, Probability, and
Abductive Inference. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.)
(2016). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin,
TX: Cognitive Science Society, 432-437.
(24) Colombo, M., Bucher, L., & Inbar, Y. (2015). Explanatory Judgment, Moral Offense, and
Value-Free Science. An Empirical Study. The Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
doi: 10.1007/s13164-015-0282-z
(23) Colombo, M. (2016). Why Build a Virtual Brain? Large-Scale Neural Simulations as Jump
Start for Cognitive Computing. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial
Intelligence.
(22) Colombo, M. (2015). Why Build a Virtual Brain? Large-scale Neural Simulations as Test-
bed for Artificial Computing Systems. In D.C. Noelle, R. Dale, A.S. Warlaumont, J.
Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C.D. Jennings, & P.P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 429-
34.
(21) Colombo, M., & Hartmann, S. (2015). Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and
Explanation. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axv036
(20) Colombo, M. (2015). For a Few Neurons More. Tractability and Neurally-Informed
Economic Modelling. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, 66: 713-736. doi:
10.1093/bjps/axu013
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(19) Colombo, M., Hartmann, S., & van Iersel, R. (2015). Models, Mechanisms, and Coherence.
The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, 66: 181-212. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axt043
(18) Colombo, M., Stankevicius, A., & Seriès, P. (2014). Benefits of social vs. non-social
feedback on learning and generosity. Results from the Tipping Game. Frontiers in
Psychology – Cultural Psychology, 5: 1154. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01154
(17) Colombo, M., & Sprenger, J. (2014). The Predictive Mind and Chess-Playing. A Reply to
Shand (2014). Analysis, 74: 603-608. doi: 10.1093/analys/anu081
(16) Colombo, M. (2014). Neural Representationalism, the Hard Problem of Content, and
Vitiated Verdicts. A Reply To Hutto & Myin (2013). Phenomenology and the Cognitive
Sciences, 13: 257-274. doi: 10.1007/s11097-014-9350-6
(15) Colombo, M. (2014). Explaining Social Norm Compliance. A Plea for Neural
Representations. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 13: 217-238. doi:
10.1007/s11097-013-9296-0
(14) Colombo, M. (2014). Deep and Beautiful. The Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis of
Dopamine. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 45:
57-67. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.10.006
(13) Colombo, M. (2014). Caring, the Emotions, and Social Norm Compliance. Journal of
Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 7: 33-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/npe0000015
(12) Colombo, M. (2014). Two Neurocomputational Building Blocks of Social Norm
Compliance. Biology and Philosophy, 29: 71-88. doi: 10.1007/s10539-013-9385-z
(11) Lisciandra, C., Postma-Nilsenová, M., & Colombo, M. (2013). Conformorality. A Study on
Group Conditioning of Normative Judgment. The Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 4:
751-764. doi: 10.1007/s13164-013-0161-4
(10) Colombo, M. (2013). Moving Forward (and Beyond) the Modularity Debate. A Network
Perspective. Philosophy of Science, 80: 356-377. doi: 10.1086/670331
(9) Colombo, M. (2013). Leges Sine Moribus Vanae. Does Language Make Moral Thinking
Possible? Biology and Philosophy, 28: 501-521. doi: 10.1007/s10539-012-9346-y
(8) Colombo, M. (2013). Constitutive Relevance and the Personal/Subpersonal Distinction.
Philosophical Psychology, 26: 547-570. doi: 10.1080/09515089.2012.667623
(7) Colombo, M., & Seriès, P. (2012). Bayes in the Brain. On Bayesian Modelling in
Neuroscience. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, 63: 697-723. doi:
10.1093/bjps/axr043
(6) Colombo, M. (2010). How ‘Authentic Intentionality’ can be enabled. A Neurocomputational
Hypothesis. Minds and Machines, 20: 183-202. doi: 10.1007/s11023-010-9192-0
(5) Colombo, M. (2009). Does Embeddedness Tell Against Computationalism? A Tale of Bees
and Sea Hares. In AISB09 Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Computing and Philosophy,
16-21.
(4) Colombo, M. (2009). Looking at the Roots of Cooperation through the Brain, and What We
Find There. In M. Gabbay (Ed.) BPPA09 Proceedings, 15-26.
(3) Colombo, M. (2009). What Can Neuroscience Offer to Economics? Humana.Mente: Journal
of Philosophical Studies, 10: 41-59. [Invited]
(2) Colombo, M. (2008). No-Brainer Predictions. Predictive Models in the Ultimatum Game.
Rerum Causae Journal of the LSE Philosophy Society, 1: 42-50.
(1) Di Francesco, M., Motterlini, M., & Colombo, M. (2007). In search of the neurobiological
basis of decision-making: Explanation, Reduction and Emergence. Functional Neurology,
22: 197-204. [Invited]
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Reviews
(10) Colombo, M. (forthcoming). Andy Clark: Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the
Embodied Mind. Oxford University Press, 2016. Minds and Machines
(9) Colombo, M. (2016). Gualtiero Piccinini: Physical Computation. A Mechanistic Account.
Oxford University Press, 2015. Minds and Machines,
(8) Colombo, M. (2016). Paco Calvo & John Symons (eds): The architecture of cognition:
rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn’s systematicity challenge. MIT Press, 2014. Philosophical
Psychology, 29: 476-478.
(7) Colombo, M. (2015). Bryce Huebner: Macrocognition: A Theory of Distributed Minds and
Collective Intentionality. Oxford University Press, New York, 2014. Minds and Machines,
25: 103-109.
(6) Colombo, M. (2014). Pete Mandik: This is Philosophy of Mind Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Minds and Machines, 24: 373-376.
(5) Colombo, M. (2014). Olaf Sporns: Discovering the Human Connectome MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 2012. Minds and Machines, 24: 217-220.
(4) Colombo, M. (2013). Paul M. Churchland: Plato’s Camera MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
2012. Minds and Machines, 23: 263-268.
(3) Colombo, M. (2013). Olaf Sporns: Networks of the Brain MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011.
Minds and Machines, 23: 259-262.
(2) Colombo, M. (2010). Jan Lauwereyns: The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh
the Options. Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press. 2010. Journal of Consciousness
Studies, 17:254-259.
(1) Colombo, M. (2006). Douglas Walton: Abductive Reasoning, Tuscaloosa, University of
Alabama Press, 2004. Review. 2R, Journal of Philosophical Reviews, 2:69-82.
Reports
(3) Colombo, M. & Irvine, L. (2013). Models and Mechanism in the Cognitive Sciences.
Workshop, 6-7 December 2012 Tilburg. The Reasoner, 7, 1:8.
(2) Colombo, M. (2011). BSPS Annual Conference 2011. 7-8 July, Sussex University. The
Reasoner, 5, 8:130.
(1) Colombo, M. & Irvine, L. (2011). Models and Mechanism in the Cognitive Sciences.
Workshop, 29 June 2011 Edinburgh. The Reasoner, 5, 8(August 2011):129-30.
GRANTS & AWARDS
2014 Research grant: € 209,500.
Used to hire a postdoctoral researcher (Dr Naftali Weinberger) for two years.
Project “Bridging Causal and Explanatory Reasoning. Normative and Empirical
Considerations.” (PI with Jan Sprenger)
SPP1516 -- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
2014 Research support grant: € 1,100
Used to visit Pittsburgh HPS
SPP1516 -- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
2011-2012 Nominated for EUSA Teaching Award. Category: Best Course (Logic 1)
2010-2011 British Society for the Philosophy of Science Doctoral Scholarship
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Society for Applied Philosophy Scholarship (declined)
2008-2011 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Studentship
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
2008-2010 Gray Research Scholarship
College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh
2008-2010 Nominated for EUSA Teaching Award. Category: Best Teacher.
2008-2012 Research Support Grants, 8 x £ 500
School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
TALKS
Invited
September 2016 Bayes, brains, and the future of cognitive science
Bernstein Conference 2016
Humboldt University Berlin (DE)
June 2016 Philosophy and psychology of explanation
Naturalism colloquium.
Università La Sapienza, Roma (IT)
May 2016 Bayesian cognitive science and the nativism vs. empiricism controversy
Philosophy of Science in a Forest (Keynote speaker)
Dutch Association for Philosophy of Science (NL)
January 2016 Bayesian cognitive science and the nativism vs. empiricism controversy
Philosophy Meets Cognitive Science colloquium
Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
June 2015 Grounding the Mind/Brain Identity Theory. The case of dopamine
Ground in Biology Workshop
University of Genève (CH)
April 2015 Bayesian cognitive science and the argument from uncertainty
Modeling Minds Workshop
Radboud University (NL)
December 2014 Bayesian cognitive science, unification, and explanation
Bayes, the Mind, and the Brain Workshop
Carnegie Mellon University (US)
December 2014 Bayesian cognitive science and the nativism vs. empiricism controversy
Center for Philosophy of Science’s Lunchtime colloquium
University of Pittsburgh (US)
November 2014 Explanatory Judgment, Moral Offense and Value-Free Science. An Empirical Study
Behavioral Ethics Lab’s Seminar
University of Pennsylvania (US)
October 2014 Explanatory Judgment, Moral Offense and Value-Free Science. An Empirical Study
Department of Philosophy and Ethics Colloquium
Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
October 2014 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation
Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society: Symposium on Predictive
Processing
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University of Tübingen (DE)
September 2014 Bayesian cognitive science, Unification and Explanation
Norms of Reasoning Workshop
Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
June 2014 Bayesian cognitive science, and the value of specialization
PhiloNeuro Seminar
University of Milan (IT)
January 2014 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Colloquium
LMU Munich (DE)
December 2013 A Bayesian Account of Explanatory Reasoning
Explaining without Causes Workshop
University of Cologne (DE)
October 2013 Explanatory Reasoning, Moral Values, and Economic Incentives
Operationalizing Epistemic Concepts Workshop vol. II
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (DE)
March 2013 Testing the Grammar of Explanatory Reasoning
2nd
Conference of the DFG Priority Program New Frameworks of Rationality
Schloss Etelsen (DE)
January 2013 Moral Values in Science & Science in Moral Values
Dante’s Offspring Kick-Off Meeting
Tilburg University (NL)
November 2012 Conformality: A Study on Normative Judgment and Conformity
A Workshop in honour of Stephan Hartmann
Tilburg University (NL)
September 2012 Measuring the Grammar of Explanatory Power
Operationalizing Epistemic Concepts Workshop
Aachen (DE)
November 2011 Social Conformism, and Normative Judgement as a Natural Kind
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Colloquium
VTC Roanoke, VA (US)
October 2011 Neural Representations. What they could be and why we need them
Donders Discussions – Foundations of Neuroscience
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen (NL)
Refereed
August 2016 Explanatory Value, Probability and Abductive Inference
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Philadelphia, PA (US)
August 2016 Sleeping beauty goes to the lab. On the psychology of self-locating belief
International Conference on Thinking
Brown University, RI (US)
June 2016 Modes of connectivity and causality in the brain.
Causality in the Sciences of the Mind and Brain.
Aarhus University (DK)
June 2016 Explanatory Pluralism: An Unrewarding Prediction Error for Free Energy Theorists
First Principles in Science
LMU Munich (DE)
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November 2015 Experimental philosophy of explanation rising.
50 shapes of scientific explanation
Ghent University (BE)
September 2015 Desiring predictions… Humean Motivation and Predictive Processing.
Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association
University of Dusseldorf (DE)
July 2015 Why build a virtual brain?
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Pasadena, CA (US)
July 2015 Explanatory Value and Probabilistic Reasoning. An update
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference
University of Manchester (UK)
June 2015 Graded Causation and Explanatory Power, Explicated Probabilistically
Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning Conference
LMU Munich (DE)
May 2015 Explanatory Value and Probabilistic Reasoning. An update
Explanation and Abduction Conference
Ghent University (BE)
January 2015 Mystery, Explanation, and Credence
Dutch-Flemish Association for Analytic Philosophy Conference
Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
September 2014 Mystery, Explanation, and Credence
Eighth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy
University of Bucharest (RO)
August 2014 Bayesian cognitive science, inference to the best explanatory framework, and the
value of specialization.
Cognitive Science of Science: Kazimierz Naturalist Workshop
Kazimierz Dolny Centre for Philosophical Research (PL)
July 2014 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference
University of Cambridge (UK)
August 2013 Explanation and probabilities: an empirical study
Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association
University of Helsinki (FI)
July 2013 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: Symposium on Constraints on
Bayesian Explanation
Humboldt University Berlin (DE)
July 2013 Deep and Beautiful. The Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis of Dopamine.
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference
University of Exeter (UK)
April 2013 For a Few Neurons More… On Modelling Practice in Neuroeconomics
Models and Decisions – Munich, Sydney, Tilburg Conference,
LMU Munich (DE)
November 2012 Social Rewards and Normative Learning. An Experimental Study
Fairness and Norms Workshop
Tilburg University (NL)
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November 2012 Models, Mechanisms, and Coherence
Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science Conference
University of Milano-Bicocca (IT)
August 2012 Social Rewards and Normative Learning. An Experimental Study
Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
University of London (UK)
July 2012 For a Few Neurons More… On Modelling Practice in Neuroeconomics
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference
University of Stirling (UK)
December 2011 Does Language make Moral Judgement Possible?
Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference
University of Amsterdam (NL)
July 2011 Conformality: A Study on Normative Judgment and Conformity
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference
University of Sussex (UK)
May 2011 Conformorality: A Study on Normative Judgment and Conformity
Symposium of the Centre Cognition, Logic and Communication
University of Latvia (LV)
June 2010 Nichols’s Rule Sentimentalism and Moral Particularism
Open Minds V
University of Manchester (UK)
April 2010 Are Emotions the Ultimate Motives of Social Norm Compliance?
3rd Sydney-Tilburg conference The Future of Philosophy of Science
Tilburg University (NL)
October 2009 Does the Brain Work that Way?
Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association
Free University Amsterdam (NL)
September 2009 Looking at the Roots of Cooperation through the Brain, and What We Find There
Société de Philosophie Analytique International Congress
University of Genève (CH)
August 2009 Do Emotions Motivate Social Norm Compliance?
Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Central European University Budapest (HU)
July 2009 Looking at the Roots of Cooperation through the Brain, and What We Find There
British Postgraduate Philosophy Association
King’s College London (UK)
July 2009 Authentic Intentionality: A Path along Neurocomputationalism
European Conference on Computing and Philosophy
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
April 2009 Does Embeddedness Tell Against Computationalism? A Tale of Bees and Sea Hares
AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK)
Internal
November 2016 Commentary on ‘Bayesian markets to elicit private information’
by by Aurélien Baillon
EIPE-TiLPS colloquium
Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
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December 2015 Sleeping beauty goes to the lab
TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar Tilburg University (NL)
January 2015 Explanatory Value and Probabilistic Reasoning. An update
TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar Tilburg University (NL)
September 2014 Bayesian Cognitive Science, Uncertainty and the Value of Specialization
TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar Tilburg University (NL)
February 2014 Commentary on ‘Understanding through counterfactual analysis modelling’
by Philippe Verreault-Julien
EIPE-TiLPS Biannual Workshop
Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
December 2013 Mystery, Explanation, and Credence (With Dominik Klein)
TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar
Tilburg University (NL)
November 2013 Explanatory Judgement, Moral Values, and Economic Incentives
TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar
Tilburg University (NL)
April 2013 Deep and Beautiful. The Reward Prediction Error Hypothesis of Dopamine
TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar
Tilburg University (NL)
October 2012 Moving Forward (and Beyond) the Modularity Debate. A Network Perspective
TiLPS Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar
Tilburg University (NL)
March 2012 Social Rewards and Normative Learning. An Experimental Study
PPIG Meeting
University of Edinburgh (UK)
May 2011 Representational Hunger Strikes Again!
Mind & Cognition Workshop
University of Edinburgh (UK)
October 2010 Personal, Subpersonal and Constitutive
Philosophy WiP Seminar
University of Edinburgh (UK)
July 2010 Tipping, Queuing, Avenging and other Social Habits. Norm Compliance: A
Neurocomputational Exploration (Poster Presentation)
Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality
Max Planck Institute for Human Development (DE)
June 2010 Uncertainty and Normative Judgement
Philosophy WiP Seminar
University of Edinburgh (UK)
November 2009 Prinzian Sentimentalism: A Critique
Philosophy WiP Seminar
University of Edinburgh (UK)
May 2009 Leges Sine Moribus Vanae. On Language and Norm-Hungriness
Mind & Cognition Workshop I
University of Edinburgh (UK)
May 2009 Do Emotions Motivate Social Norm Compliance?
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Philosophy WiP Seminar
University of Edinburgh (UK)
June 2007 Neuroeconomics. A pluralistic approach
Evolution, Culture and Cognition Workshop
San Raffaele University, Milan (IT)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Tilburg University
Spring 2017 Course organizer and lecturer
Moral Reasoning and Decision Making (Masters)
Course organizer and lecturer
Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science (Bachelor)
Course organizer and co-lecturer
Experimental Philosophy (Upper-level bachelor)
Autumn 2016 Course organizer and lecturer
Social Epistemology and Group Agency (Masters)
Course organizer and co-lecturer
Philosophy of Science for International Business Administration (Bachelor)
Spring 2016 Course organizer and lecturer
Moral Reasoning and Decision Making (Masters)
Course organizer and lecturer
Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science (Bachelor)
Autumn 2015 Course organizer and lecturer
Social Epistemology and Group Agency (Masters)
Course organizer and co-lecturer
Experimental Philosophy (Upper-level bachelor)
Course organizer and co-lecturer
Philosophy of Science for International Business Administration (Bachelor)
Spring 2015 Course organizer and lecturer
Moral Reasoning and Decision Making (Masters)
Course organizer and lecturer
Philosophy of Science (Bachelor)
Autumn 2014 Course co-organizer and lecturer
Social Epistemology and Group Agency (Masters)
Spring 2014 Course organizer and lecturer
Rational Decision-making (Masters)
Spring 2013 Course organizer and lecturer
Decisions & Deliberation in the Moral Realm (Upper-level bachelor)
November 2012 Guest lecturer
The Demarcation Problem
University of Edinburgh
February 2012 Guest Lecturer (cycle of two classes for master students in Computational
Cognitive Neuroscience)
The Neuroeconomics of Keynesian “Beauty Contests”
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Spring 2012 Tutor – Logic 1 (pre-honours)
March 2011 Guest Lecturer (cycle of two classes for master students in Computational
Cognitive Neuroscience)
Value-Based Decision-Making
February 2010 Guest lecturer (cycle of two classes for master students in Computational
Cognitive Neuroscience)
What’s the point of Neuroeconomics?
Spring 2009 Tutor – Morality, Rationality and Value (pre-honours)
Autumn 2009/ Autumn 2010 Tutor – Mind, Matter and Language (pre-honours)
2008 – 2009 Tutor – Introduction to Philosophy (pre-honours)
Università di Milano, Bicocca
March 2007 Guest Lecturer (cycle of two classes for master students in Psychology and
Communication)
Relevance Theory. Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Departmental service
2013-present Organizer of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science colloquia
TiLPS, Tilburg University
2013-present Search committee for various posts at various levels
(PhD, Postdoc, Assistant Professor, and Full Professor)
Department of Philosophy and TiLPS, Tilburg University
2016 Teaching mentor for new colleagues seeking a Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO)
2014-2016 Management team
Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University
Conference & workshop organisation
10-12 Jun 2015 Munich-Sydney-Tilburg conference: “Objectivity in Science” - TiLPS
Local organizing committee
Partially funded by KNAW for € 3,200
12-13 Dec 2013 1st Tilburg-Nijmegen-Antwerp Mind & Cognition Workshop - TiLPS
Organizer with Dr Monica Meijsing
6-7 Dec 2012 Models, Mechanisms and Scientific Explanation - TiLPS
Organizer with Dr Liz Irvine
Funded by the NWO Internationalisation grant (2010-2012)
29 Jun 2011 Models and Mechanism in the Cognitive Sciences - University of Edinburgh
Organizer with Dr Liz Irvine
Funded by the Mind Association
15 Mar 2010 Graduate Workshop in Mind & Cognition DoGs II - University of Edinburgh
Funded by the Scots Phil Society
11 May 2009 Graduate Workshop in Mind & Cognition DoGs I - University of Edinburgh.
Funded by PPLS Training & Development Grant Scheme
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Refereeing work
Research proposals: NSF (USA);
Journals: Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Brain and Cognition; Cognitive Science; Consciousness and
Cognition; Episteme; Erkenntnis; Frontiers in Psychology; Journal for General Philosophy of Science;
Mind; Mind & Language; Minds and Machines; Neuroscience of Consciousness Phenomenology and Mind;
Philosophia; Philosophical Psychology; Philosophy of Science; PLOS ONE; Res Philosophica; Philosophy
& Technology; Social Neuroscience; Synthese; The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; The
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Books: Synthese Library;
Conferences: CogSci16; CogSci15; CogSci14; CogSci13; Canadian Philosophical Association;
Programme Committee: ECAP9—LMU Munich; Descartes Lectures16—TiLPS, Tilburg; SRSSP2015,
SRSSP2014—San Raffaele University, Milan; Explanation Beyond Causation 2014—MCMP, Munich.
Jury member: Best poster prize at the Perspectives on human probabilistic inference workshop 2014—
Lorentz Center, Leiden;
Outreach
2016 Lecture on “Race and gender” for high school students in Tilburg
[A day-long event aimed at engaging students with diverse backgrounds in the Tilburg area]
2015 Speaker at “Scepticism seminar” for philosophy teachers in secondary schools in Tilburg.
[A day-long public event aimed at a teachers in secondary schools]
2015 Program committee for “Tilburg - Dag van de Filosofie, 2015: Inequality”
[A day-long public event aimed at a non-academic audience]
2007-2008 Collaborator of M. Motterlini, Trappole Mentali, Rizzoli, Milano, 2008
[A trade book on cognitive biases, translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese]
Professional membership
2013- Cognitive Science Society
2010- British Society for the Philosophy of Science
2009- European Society for Philosophy of Science
2008- CRESA (Center for Experimental and Applied Epistemology).
San Raffaele University, Milan (IT)
2005- Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy
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REFERENCES
Prof Andy Clark School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language
Sciences
University of Edinburgh
Prof Stephan Hartmann Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München
Prof Edouard Machery Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Dr Peggy Seriès Institute for Adaptive & Neural Computation
University of Edinburgh
Prof Jan Sprenger Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Tilburg University
Dr Mark Sprevak School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language
Sciences
University of Edinburgh